Saturday, July 22, 2017

NYT Crossword 07/22/17 (Sat.)

Cruciverbalist: Zhouqin Burkinel
Editor: Will Smith

Solving time: 1:09:19 (Very tough, thought I would get a DNF)

Puzzle uniqueness: 0

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know:

CLAIRE - "Lead female role on Netflix's 'House of Cards'"
LOGO - "Snapchat's ghost, e.g."
CRETE - "Home to the Museum of El Greco"
BASRA - "Major port near the Persian Gulf"
LANCET - "Maker of hospital cuts"
ROSEANNE - "Show for which Laurie Metcalf won three Emmys"
EISEN - "Sportscaster Rich"
SERT - "Rockefeller Center muralist"
CROSSE - "Sports stick"
LOWES - "Big-box store founded in 1946"
BITMOJIS - "Cartoon avatars on Snapchat"

Junk Answers:

SICEM - "Biting words?"
TMEN - "Dodgers' pursuers"
TAS - "U. 2's?"

Clever clues:

LANDHO - "Shore line?"

Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:

ATBAR - "Being tried"
LUSTRE - "Radiance, in England"
SPELT - "Like H-U-M-O-U-R"
AMENRA - "Ankh-holding deity"

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